On Friday October 13, 2017, National Széchényi Library will host a professional day focusing on archiving internet content and on related tasks public collections are facing.
On Friday October 13, 2017, National Széchényi Library will host a professional day entitled 404 Not Found – Who will preserve the internet? on the tasks of public collections related to the archiving of online content. The event will be held in the Ceremonial Hall on Floor 6 of NSZL between 10:00 and 13:30. In the first two hours, four keynote lectures will be delivered, followed by an informal discussion with the participants about the topics raised.
Planned lectures:
- Kees Teszelszky, staff member of the National Library of the Netherlands [1] (KB) responsible for web archiving will present an overview of Dutch and Belgian projects, the former operating since 2007, while the latter starting in 2017.
- Miklós Peternák, director of C3 Center for Culture & Communication [2]will talk about the importance of the preservation of online content, with special regard to museum and art contexts.
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György Kampis, professor of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) will report on a web harvest and news site archiving performed, mainly for science-metric purposes, by PetaByte Nonprofit Research Ltd. in the early 2010s.
- Theme leader László Drótos and web librarian Márton Németh, staff member of NSZL will present the experiences and results of the first six months of a web archiving pilot project [3], operating as part of Hungary’s OKR (National Library System) program.
If you wish to participate in the event, please, notify our colleague Ákos László Visky at the following e-mail address: visky.akos.laszlo@oszk.hu [4].
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